The first part is murky, but I remember walking around the science building at school, with an illegally modified access card to get into places I usually couldn’t. At some point there’s some kind of presentation and there are professors and others all over the place, and I just try to blend in. At some point I notice a cute couple (thankfully one invented in the dream) studying in a breakroom, and the girl then leaves for the restroom. I was about to stalk her there, but then when I realized there were too many people around, I decided to watch the guy in his lonesome instead. As I’m peering around the door, suddenly more people come by and I have to quickly sneak into a door I had never entered before, which takes me to a time machine. The details are fuzzy, but…
At some point I found myself in a jacuzzi with two redneck ex-slavers, a highly educated black man, and freed slave blackface stereotype. The rednecks were clearly already very uncomfortable with the prospect, and to make matters worse for them, the highly educated guy wouldn’t stop spouting off about all sorts of stuff which I wish I remember because it sounded really intelligent. At some point one the rednecks says to the other “Hey, I’ve been thinking about buying a new dog, know any place I can get one?” and the other says “Shit son, it’s illegal to own dogs now”, glaring at the smart black guy, and the ex-slave laughs in an exaggerated “Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk!” manner. This fills the educated guy with a massive rage and he suddenly becomes pumped and kills the two rednecks immediately and then tears off some wooden boarding near the jacuzzi and impales one of the ex-slave’s hands with it. The smart one now apparently kills himself and the ex-slave runs off hiding.
As I leave the jacuzzi I find a brother of mine and we search on a Garmin for the best possible doctor nearby to help the ex-slave since we has basically innocent, and discover a Chinese herbalist mystic within a mile. My brother and I take off running through my 1880’s-style neighborhood and as we progress it suddenly resembles a cyberpunk game more and more, with electric lighting and thick smog and eerie buildings around canals. Anyways, once we get there we found ourselves in a really run-down and seedy bar, and there’s this giant grilling station with several Chinamen behind it. I ask this old lady for a remedy so that we prevent any infection and death of the ex-slave, and then she places two sets of coins out in front of us, one of modern ordinary pennies and the other of large bluish coins which said “1895, Pd-Pt” and had bridges and smiling Chinese children on them, offering set to us. I figured WE’D be the ones paying so I was confused, but picked the legit-looking Chinese ones, but my brother insisted on pennies. The mystic then took the pennies, lathered them in herbs and sauces, and then threw them on the grill. She then says “These for slave, not for you. Have slave work for you and pay one penny at beginning of each day. He will have healing penny firmly pressed against wound whole day. Over time, will cure. If give all at once, he will spend on cocaine. Goodbye,” and then she disappears.
I walk towards the exit of the bar with my magic pennies when suddenly everything turns SNES Shadowrun isometric style, and there’s this giant NES in one corner of the bar. I am now Ness, and there’s a dude with a blonde mullet and sunglasses guarding the NES. He asks me if I want to play a game, and I say “Sure”. This cartridge slot opens up and I hop inside, when suddenly I’m transported through this long psychedelic 2001: A Space Odyssey sequence, and them BAM, first-person mode again and I’m back in the canals. Now it looks just like a mix of Deus Ex 1 & 3, and I am going from shop to shop stealing loot. I find a locked music store with a giant “Somewhere in Time, remastered like you’ve never heard before!” sign and wonder if it will improve my enjoyment of the album. Then I wake up.